Behavior analysis

Behavior analysis

Behavior analysis is an approach to psychology that concerns itself primarily with observing, analysing and attempting to understand and predict the way humans behave and interact.

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Count

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A brief form of reference to countability. Also some times called frequency, especially in statistics.

The repetition or continuation of experimental conditions and/or stimuli after given responses or after their absence (especially, in a discrete-trial simultaneous discrimination, after errors). For ...

Coordinate

Psychology; Behavior analysis

The value of a point plotted on a graph. In a two-dimensional system, the value plotted along the x-axis is called the abscissa and that plotted along the y-axis is called the ordinate; the terms do ...

Cycle

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A unit of measurement for the dimensional quantity of countability.

Cvc trigram

Psychology; Behavior analysis

In verbal learning procedures, an item made up of a consonant, a vowel and a consonant (often a nonsense syllable).

Curve

Psychology; Behavior analysis

Used in referring to the present figures to refer to any unitary portion of a recorded performance.

Cuing

Psychology; Behavior analysis

A stimulus that has acquired its aversive properties because it has reliably accompanied another aversive stimulus (e.g., in discriminated avoidance, the warning stimulus may become a conditioned ...